Local notes on meetings and elections in North Scranton area
Reports from North Scranton describe a lieutenant calling a meeting for ex-members to prepare for a militant event, a patriotic program with speeches, and a sidewalk rally. The piece covers committee activity across Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western counties, an election contest witnesses list, and a regiment company inspection and reorganization efforts with planned future meetings.
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Muff
Conpaby F. Thine Poulment
Tapigtt
Auditorum
North Ecranton
Atti
Tearannlathon
Letters From The People Note Publishing Policy
Under this heading short letters of interest may be published when accompanied by the writer name The paper will not be held responsible for opinions here expressed.
Green Ridge Market Items Prompt Curious Local Notices
Fragmentary remarks describe trades and people in Green Ridge including references to a market, a butcher, plumbing, and a forthcoming marriage. The tone notes sober residents and a playful nod to vegetables, with dated placeholders and garbled phrases from a local column.
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Green Ridge
Clark
Lewla
Mr. Chapple
Beper
Editor Corrects Tucker and Maxey Conspiracy Report
John F P Reynolds is defended against claims of juror tampering in the Tucker and Maxey case. The letter from J F P Scroge of Scranton Pa June 23 1809 argues a misreporting by The Tribune Bir and asserts juror Hampton sought misconduct had not solicited Reynolds and that a new trial was requested due to juror prejudice.
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the Tribune
Bir
Tucker & Maxey
John FP. Reynelda
Reynolds
Reynolda
Hampton
John FP. Scroge
Scranton
Koons to Take South Side Sewer Contract
A. H. Koons, formerly of Kingston and lately a Scranton resident, wins the South Side sewer contract from Dunn Brothers by assignment. He will receive the $3,000 bonus funded by South Side residents and aims to file a new contract and bond with City Solicitor Vosburg, planning to start preliminary work by Monday.
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South Side
A. H. Koons
Kingston
Scranton
Fourteenth
Koons
Dunn Brothers
Burleigh
Dunmore
Vosburg
Koon
Workmen Drain Lackawanna Avenue For Asphalt Renewal
A large force of workers is renewing Lackawanna avenue with asphalt. The city engineer’s team marked lines and crews labored from Wyoming avenue to the Delaware crossing, tearing up the old surface. The south side from Wyoming to the bridge will be resurfaced first, while the north side from the bridge to the crossing follows. Smoke the Pocono, bcent Cigar.
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Lackawanna Avenue
Wyoming Avenue
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Lackawannna Avenue
Carpenters in Scranton Receive Union Installment
The first national installment was paid to Carpenters' union members in Scranton yesterday in certified checks cashed at a local bank. Distributions at Carpenters' hall on Wyoming Avenue continued into the evening, with about half the funds handed out and plans to finish by noon today. Secretary McGuire is expected to arrive soon as Builders' Exchange remains firm.
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National Organization
Carpenters
Carpenters’ Hall
Wyoming Avenue
McGuire
Huilders’ Exchange
Traction line repairs halt cars on Main and Jackson
Scranton Traction cars on Main avenue, Jackson street and Quincey avenue were not run yesterday due to engine No 8 crank pin break at the power house on Providence road. Cars will operate today. New Laurel Hill to Dunmore Corners tracks finished with modern ballast. The Country club extension will be completed in a day or two, from Wyoming avenue and Green Ridge street to Fairfield street Abence to Washington avenue near the Country club house. The two mile Tie will aid access to the Oval school Home for the Friendless and St Joseph’s Foundling home. Work tearing up Celie avenue tracks from the bridge to Hickory street will remove old No 1 switch and add a single track.
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Main Avenue
Jackson Street
Quincey Avenue
Scranton Traction Company
Providence Road
Wac
Laurel Hill Park
Dunnere Corners
Country Club
Wyoming Avenue
Green Ridge Street
Fairfield Street
Washington Avenue
Oval School
St. Joseph's Foundling
Traction Company
Beranton
Celie Avenue
Hickory Street
Pitteton Avenue
Dirch Street
Railroad YMCA Faces Self Support After July
Rumor from railroad men in the Delaware Lackawanna and Western says after July 1 the Road’s Young Men’s Christian associations may be required to be self supporting. President Truesdale reportedly plans no company contributions. The railroad had funded over $10 000 annually for maintenance. Secretary Adair of the Scranton YMCA said he had not heard of such a change. Company officials in the city were uncertain.
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company
Allroad
Truesdale
Tribune
Pennsylvania and Collieries Abandon Flood Removal Effort
Pennsylvania officials announce they must abandon attempts to remove flood water from Schooley mine. Mt Lookout and Exeter collieries expect no serious trouble, believing barrier pillars between collieries are strong enough to resist the flood pressure.
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Pennsylvania
Mt. Lookout
Lehigh Valley
Schooley Mine
Exeter
Schooley
Pitteton Gazette
Lehigh Valley Locomotives Arrive for Mountain Cut Off Work
Six of ten Baldwin engines weighing 115 tons each have reached Coxton yards and two have run trials on the mountain cut off from Pittston Junction to Fairview. The new locomotives are capable of pushing 1,000 tons up the cut off, double the power of the engines previously used.
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Lehigh Valley Road
Coxton Yards
Pittston Junction
Fairview
Baldwin
Miners' Union Organizer Plans Wilkes-Barre Convention
Benjamin James of Janesville Florida, organizer for the district of the United Mine Workers, traveled to Wilkes-Barre for a convention of delegates from unions in the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys. He says the miners are well organized and expected to be thoroughly organized soon, though details of the business were not disclosed.
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Benjamin James
Janesville
Fla
United Mine Workers
James
Wilkes-Barre
Firet
Lackawanna
Wyoming
Franklin furnace up for containment in New Jersey
The Franklin furnace at Franklin Furnace, N J, owned and contained by the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company of Scranton, Pa, is getting...
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Franklin Furnace
N. J
Lackawanna Iron and Stein Company
Scranton, Pa
Ready to Blow In At Furnaces Using Ore and Cinder
The furnaces will use Tilly Foster and Mesaba ores with pyrites cinder. It is expected that in the second half of the year output will reach about 15 000 tons of Bessemer pig iron destined for the Scranton plant.
Railroad and industry notes from 1899 era dispatches
Resignations along the Jersey Route branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. J M Daly returns from New York as transportation head of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western. Train Nos 3 and 14 shift to Sundays from Scranton to Buffalo via Binghamton with revised departure times. Green Wool collieries workers remain on strike for higher wages. A rumored relocation of Lackawanna iron and steel’s Haventon plant to Buffalo is denied. Fik Tanning plant workers seek 20 percent raise. settlement yields 1 to 1½ percent, majority still hold out. Carpenter Steel ships army projectiles from Reading. fourteen more to come. plant now runs on 12 inch shells. Railroad Gazette reports six months 1899 rail miles total 1,181. Pennsylvania leads with 106 miles. Keystone and Riverside Watch Case plants in Philadelphia consolidate. charter sought in Harrisburg. J Lowther Welsh named president of new Keystone Watch Case Co, to operate plants independently.
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M. D. Clark
Jersey
Greenwool
Hevanton
Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company
Buffalo
Fik Tanning Company
Mann's Choice
Carpenter Steel Company
Reading
Thre Works
Railroad Gazette
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Arkansas
Keystone Watch Case Company
Riverside Watch Case Company
Philadelphia
Harrisbore
J. Lowther Welsh
Grand Gala Day At Pennsylvania Excursion Resort
A July 4th event at a Pennsylvania excursion resort features baseball at 2:90 p.m. between two local clubs with refreshments by Hanley of Scranton. Bauer's Scranton band performs a varied program including marches overtures and popular numbers, with the Delaware and Hudson offering low excursion fares and train food on July 4.
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Pennsylvania
Hanley
Scranton
Bauer
Band of Scranton
Delaware and Hudson
Spectacle at City Hall draws pity and tears
A crowd described as decrepit and disabled gathered at the City Hall area, where street laborers from various wards were being paid. The piece laments the sight and contrasts readers’ fortunes, highlighting the emotional impact on sympathetic readers.
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City Hall
Board of Associated Charities
Not Our Mr Boland Declines Supreme Archon Post
Telegrams yesterday clarified that C F Cohen of Pittburg was chosen supreme archon of the Heptasophs, not C G Boland. The Scranton delegation backed Boland, but he declined candidacy. a Buffalo reporter misread the name Roeland of Pittaburg in the despatch.
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CC. G. Boland
Heptausophs
Boland
C. F. Cohen
Pitteburg
Associated Presse
C. Roeland
Pittaburg
Scranton
Buffalo
Fire destroys Derby homestead in Dunmore
A morning blaze leveled the Dunker street Derby homestead in Dunmore. The unoccupied single frame dwelling, about 50 years old, owned by Mrs. Joseph Comstock, burned at 1 90 this morning. Cause undetermined at report time.
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Derby
Dunker Street
Dunmore
Joseph Comstock
Taylor made garments and warm weather line promoted
The ad touts a line of serges and warm weather clothing from Taylor made garments at low prices. It cites 426 Lackawanna avenue and mentions testimonials for Chamberlain's Pain Balm through P Ketcham of Pike City California. It notes sales through Matthew Bros and a local cigar promotion.
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Tichards
Wirth & Lewis
Lackawanna Avenue
P. Ketcham
Pike City
Cal
Chamberlain
Matthew Bros
Caldwell and Dieterich Wed in Scranton Residence
In Scranton Pennsylvania on June TM 1904 Albert Caldwell and Miss Fannie Dieterich were married at the home of T Johnson 1109 Cedar Avenue with Rev. F P Doty, Cedar Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church pastor officiating.
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Caldwell-Dieterich
Scranton
A T. Johnson
Cedar Avenue
F. P. Doty
Cedar Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Albert Caldwell
Fannie Dieterich
Owens Daughter Ruth Dies in Scranton
Ruth Owens 12 year old daughter of T. BR Owens and the late Jennie M Owens died in Scranton. Funeral from 1 Madison Avenue residence Sunday at 8 p.m.
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